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Contextual Related Posts · Version history

Contextual Related Posts changelog and version history

Latest version
4.5.4
Nov 3, 2026 (6 days ago)
Releases
118
since 2009
In the last year
16
about one every 20 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 200912 releases
  • 20106 releases
  • 20112 releases
  • 201210 releases
  • 20139 releases
  • 20145 releases
  • 20156 releases
  • 20162 releases
  • 20172 releases
  • 20181 release
  • 20197 releases
  • 20205 releases
  • 20218 releases
  • 20227 releases
  • 20236 releases
  • 20248 releases
  • 20256 releases
  • 202616 releases

202616 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 4.5.4Latest

    • Release date: 3 November 2026
    • Security
    • Hardened related posts so they include only published posts that visitors can view.
    • [Pro] Hardened the featured image REST endpoint and page builder attributes.

  2. Contextual Related Posts 4.5.3

    • Release date: 1 November 2026
    • Fixed
    • On attachment pages, and in search results that included an attachment, posts without a featured image used that attachment as their thumbnail.
    • On sites that had never saved the plugin settings, related posts from the REST API, Query Loop and get_crp_posts() raised PHP warnings and were not cached.

  3. Contextual Related Posts 4.5.2

    • Release date: 15 October 2026
    • Security
    • Prevented thumbnails from exposing images inside or attached to password-protected posts before the password was entered.
    • Hardened thumbnail URLs to reject unsafe protocols.
    • Fixed
    • Malformed custom thumbnail dimensions caused PHP errors during image-size selection.

  4. Contextual Related Posts 4.5.1

    • Release date: 10 October 2026
    • Fixed
    • The deprecated postid argument was ignored, so get_crp_posts() returned posts related to the current post instead.
    • Missing FULLTEXT indexes were not recreated automatically on the free plugin, and the Tools status report showed the index schema as not installed.

  5. Contextual Related Posts 4.5.0

    • Release date: 2 October 2026 Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/contextual-related-posts-v4-5/
    • Added
    • Added optional minimum relevance filtering to exclude weak matches, disabled by default and unavailable on SQLite.
    • Added a Status section to the Tools page showing database, index, cache and migration health.
    • Post edits and publishing triggered cache clearing for affected related lists.
    • Added WordPress Abilities API support for retrieving related posts, with controls for REST API and Abilities API access in the Features tab.
    • Exposed crp_cache_time and crp_cache_busting_settings filters for cache lifetime and invalidation.
    • Related posts served through the REST API worked with TranslatePress.
    • [Pro] Posts gained optional recency weighting with a configurable boost and half-life, disabled by default.
    • [Pro] Administrators gained abilities to clear the cache and set post exclusions.
    • [Pro] Added WP-CLI commands to add, remove and list post exclusions.
    • [Pro] The Tools status report gained custom-table health, index coverage and reconciliation details.
    • [Pro] Lazy-loaded related posts worked with TranslatePress.
    • [Pro] Added a standalone Advanced block with six selectable patterns and separate Settings and Styles tabs.
    • [Pro] Added a Transform option to convert supported legacy CRP Query Loop blocks to the Advanced block while preserving query settings and card content.
    • Changed
    • Raised the minimum WordPress version to 6.9 for the Abilities API.
    • Reduced cache-clearing overhead during imports, bulk edits and menu or template saves.
    • Cleared affected related lists when posts were trashed, independently of the full-cache-flush setting.
    • Updated related-post block icons with WebberZone’s amber and gold brand colors.
    • Fixed
    • Cached related posts remained stale after ranking settings changed or settings were reset.
    • Cached related posts remained stale after Quick Edit, Bulk Edit, scheduled publishing and other saves without the plugin’s meta box.
    • Cached output could show another language’s titles and links on WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress sites.
    • For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the releases page on GitHub.

  6. Contextual Related Posts 4.4.2

  7. Contextual Related Posts 4.4.1

  8. Contextual Related Posts 4.4.0

  9. Contextual Related Posts 4.3.1

  10. Contextual Related Posts 4.3.0

  11. Contextual Related Posts 4.2.4

  12. Contextual Related Posts 4.2.3

  13. Contextual Related Posts 4.2.2

  14. Contextual Related Posts 4.2.1

  15. Contextual Related Posts 4.2.0

  16. Contextual Related Posts 4.1.0

20256 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 4.0.3

  2. Contextual Related Posts 4.0.2

  3. Contextual Related Posts 4.0.1

  4. Contextual Related Posts 4.0.0

  5. Contextual Related Posts 3.6.2

  6. Contextual Related Posts 3.6.1

20248 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 3.6.0

  2. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.5

  3. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.4

  4. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.3

  5. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.2

  6. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.1

  7. Contextual Related Posts 3.5.0

  8. Contextual Related Posts 3.4.2

20236 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 3.4.1

  2. Contextual Related Posts 3.4.0

  3. Contextual Related Posts 3.3.4

  4. Contextual Related Posts 3.3.3

  5. Contextual Related Posts 3.3.2

  6. Contextual Related Posts 3.3.1

20227 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 3.3.0

  2. Contextual Related Posts 3.2.3

  3. Contextual Related Posts 3.2.2

  4. Contextual Related Posts 3.2.1

  5. Contextual Related Posts 3.2.0

  6. Contextual Related Posts 3.1.1

  7. Contextual Related Posts 3.1.0

20218 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.7

  2. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.6

  3. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.5

  4. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.4

  5. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.3

  6. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.2

  7. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.1

  8. Contextual Related Posts 3.0.0

20205 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.9.4

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.9.3

  3. Contextual Related Posts 2.9.2

  4. Contextual Related Posts 2.9.1

  5. Contextual Related Posts 2.9.0

20197 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.8.0

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.7.0

  3. Contextual Related Posts 2.6.3

  4. Contextual Related Posts 2.6.2

  5. Contextual Related Posts 2.6.1

  6. Contextual Related Posts 2.6.0

  7. Contextual Related Posts 2.5.1

20181 release

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.5.0

20172 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.4.1

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.4.0

20162 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.3.1

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.3.0

20156 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.2.3

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.2.2

  3. Contextual Related Posts 2.2.1

  4. Contextual Related Posts 2.2.0

  5. Contextual Related Posts 2.1.1

  6. Contextual Related Posts 2.1.0

20145 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 2.0.1

  2. Contextual Related Posts 2.0.0

  3. Contextual Related Posts 1.9.1

  4. Contextual Related Posts 1.9.0.1

  5. Contextual Related Posts 1.9

20139 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.10.2

  2. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.10.1

  3. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.10

  4. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.9.1

  5. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.9

  6. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.8

  7. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.7

  8. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.6

  9. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.5

201210 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.4

  2. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.3

  3. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.2

  4. Contextual Related Posts 1.8.1

  5. Contextual Related Posts 1.8

  6. Contextual Related Posts 1.7.4

  7. Contextual Related Posts 1.7.3

  8. Contextual Related Posts 1.7.2

  9. Contextual Related Posts 1.7.1

  10. Contextual Related Posts 1.7

20112 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 1.6.5

  2. Contextual Related Posts 1.6.4

20106 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 1.6.3

  2. Contextual Related Posts 1.6.2

  3. Contextual Related Posts 1.6.1

  4. Contextual Related Posts 1.6

  5. Contextual Related Posts 1.5.2

  6. Contextual Related Posts 1.5.1

200912 releases

  1. Contextual Related Posts 1.5

  2. Contextual Related Posts 1.4.2

  3. Contextual Related Posts 1.4.1

  4. Contextual Related Posts 1.4

  5. Contextual Related Posts 1.3.1

  6. Contextual Related Posts 1.3

  7. Contextual Related Posts 1.2.2

  8. Contextual Related Posts 1.2.1

  9. Contextual Related Posts 1.2

  10. Contextual Related Posts 1.1.1

  11. Contextual Related Posts 1.1

  12. Contextual Related Posts 1.0.1

Questions about Contextual Related Posts’s releases

What is the latest version of Contextual Related Posts?

4.5.4, released on Nov 3, 2026 (6 days ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Contextual Related Posts updated?

16 releases in the last year, about one every 20 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2009.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Contextual Related Posts’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.